This is a page from the 2023 Manitoba general election.

Education platforms

Here's what the candidates in Brandon West, and their parties, are promising.

French schooling

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We don't have any PC policies on French schooling.

NDP
  • Restore the Assistant Deputy Minister Position for French Education
  • Recruit more French-language teachers
  • Reverse cuts to French language education at the Université de Saint-Boniface

K-12 funding

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Green
  • Provide Lunch and up to one other meal per school day (Breakfast or Dinner) to all K-12 Students in Manitoba public schools, free of charge

NDP
  • Give schools stable, predictable funding
  • Reduce class sizes for younger grades so students can have more one-on-one attention
  • Pass Public-Private-Partnership "accountability legislation" to keep private business interests out of classrooms

    "Bring in new P3 accountability legislation to protect schools and keep private business interests out of our classrooms." — mbndp.ca, retrieved 2023-09-19

Learning needs

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NDP
  • Hire more teachers and EAs for kids with additional needs

Parental rights and involvement

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PC
  • Require schools to inform parents of curriculum
  • Require schools to involve parents when addressing bullying and pupil behaviour changes
  • Require schools to get consent from parents before making, sharing, or storing any image of a student
  • Require schools to notify parents before any presentations are made at school by outside presenters
We don't have any NDP policies on Parental rights and involvement.

Post-secondary costs and loans

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Green
  • Work towards a target of all Manitoba Student Aid recipients receiving at least 50% of their funding in the form of non-repayable grants rather than loans
  • Develop programs to structure repayment of Manitoba Student loans through an income-contingent repayment plan, based on the individual student's ability to pay

School curriculum

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Green
  • Affirm that young people have the right to be educated on matters pertaining to their own bodies
  • Condemn and prevent the suppression and censorship of educational materials informing youth about puberty, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and sexual health
  • Condemn the suppression of books that feature queer individuals and issues
  • Expand Manitoba's social studies curriculum to include an exploration of the history of the AIDS epidemic and its causes, including the government-sanctioned AIDS information suppression campaigns

NDP
  • Update the K-12 curriculum with a focus on math and reading
  • Increase STEM programming in secondary school

    "Increase STEM programming at high schools across the province in coordination with post-secondary institutions so Manitobans are ready for the jobs of tomorrow" — mbndp.ca, retrieved 2023-09-19

Student mental health

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We don't have any PC policies on Student mental health.

Green
  • De-emphasize and reduce the role of testing and quantitative evaluation in school, instead giving teachers the means to make more meaningful assessments of their students' progress
  • Discontinue all standardised testing in Manitoba
We don't have any NDP policies on Student mental health.